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Matilda by Roald Dahl

Review by Roshan (3JO)

This book is about a clever girl called Matilda who has magical powers. She has mean parents who don’t want her to go to school and treat her badly and a very strict evil headmistress called Miss Trunchbull. Matilda uses her special powers to protect her classmates from Miss Trunchbull and get her really kind teacher Miss Honey’s house back. 

I liked reading about all the different ways Matilda used her special powers.

I would recommend this book to children aged 7 and above.

 

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 

Review by Jonathan (4SB)

I like this book because there are very drastic twists and the book is really interesting and fun to read especially if you like dramatic books. The main characters are Sunny, Klaus, Violet and Count Olaf. The evil character is Count Olaf because he tries to get the fortune from the children because their parents died. The children are really clever and that helps them in their scary adventures (except for Sunny) and the endings aren’t happy.

If you like happy endings close the book now or otherwise you’ll face the torture of the book!

I would rate this book for aged 8 or above.

 

Olympic Sport: The Whole Muscle Flexing Story by Glenn Murphy

Review by Eloise (5LN)

This book is a non-fiction book, so it is full of facts. It covers all different kinds of Olympic sport, from running to gymnastics. It provides tips on how to improve or start learning a sport. Each chapter has a different theme based on different sporting attributes. For example, gymnastics is in the chapter ‘Balance, flexibility and control’. Another example is hockey is in ‘He shoots…He scores!’ The author is talking to the reader and is very humorous in the book. 

I found this book inspiring because it makes me want to try out different types of sport. It’s helpful because whatever sport I’m doing it will assist me to improve. At the end of some of the sport sections, there pictures of athletes that competed in those particular sports with inspiring quotes underneath. I found that really interesting. 

I would highly recommend this book to people who like sport or want to learn more about the Olympics. I recommend this to children, ages 8-10.

 

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Review by Kara (6MT)

This was an amazing book about a very poor Chinese girl called Mia who moves to America in Year 5. Here, she is bullied a lot and has to work along with her parents just to earn enough money to eat a small meal! 

I loved how Jason, who seemed really mean to Mia at first, never told on her family about how they snuck in friends from China for free. 

I would recommend this book to anyone, because it is such a good book that NO ONE could turn it down!